<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Just another -1. While I appreciated it in Ruby, I don't think it belongs in the Swift standard library at this time. If closures could be annotated as break/continue-able, and if the standard library started grew a lot—as Ruby's did—then maybe (I'd prefer the former and hold off on the latter, though).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In the meantime, "repeat 5 { /* do something */ }" seems better to me.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stephen</div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 20, 2015, at 9:32 PM, T.J. Usiyan via swift-evolution <<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">-1 from me. It is simple enough for an extension and provides little benefit as a standard library inclusion.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Howard Lovatt via swift-evolution <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:swift-evolution@swift.org" target="_blank" class="">swift-evolution@swift.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">+1 to 5.times{stuff} from me. I much prefer library functions to language extensions.<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> -- Howard.<br class=""></div>
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